There are also some really fun moments that come from the American footage recycling old monsters. It led to fewer awkward poses and gestures with bad dubbing and helped the dubbing make a bit more sense. As I mentioned above, the White Ranger being thrown into the mix led to more American footage of the Rangers, and I found this footage to be fun to watch (possibly more so than the Sentai footage sometimes).
He’s also not the only Americanization that was cool for the season. This gave the Power Rangers team a lot of flexibility which I think led to Zedd being so great. It’s also important to note that he’s an American villain. Lord Zedd is an absolutely incredible villain. Now, let’s look at the flip side of things. The third opportunity was during “The Power Transfer.” What if when they performed the power transfer, something needed to change which resulted in the Thunder Rangers? That could’ve worked well and let Power Rangers better use footage from Sentai. The second is during “White Light” when they found that some new power had helped Tommy and there’s enough to give to the other Rangers to face off against the stronger monsters that Zedd is throwing at them. The first is when they first get the Thunderzords during “The Mutiny.” It would’ve been perfectly understandable to explain that the Rangers need a power boost and that includes a change of costume (I’ve included a picture of the Gosei Rangers below). There are at least three perfect opportunities for the Rangers to “upgrade” to the Gosei uniforms.
What I don’t understand is why they didn’t change the Ranger uniforms. Sadly, because they recycle monsters so much in this season, there are plenty of moments later where the Zord fights are once again lackluster and boring because you can’t have the Zords and monsters in the same frame. Unfortunately, with the introduction of the Thunderzords so early in the season, from episode 3 until after “Green No More,” the Zord fights are really dumb. I think this is why there’s a lot of recycling of monsters in this season.
The approach works well when the Rangers fight Putties, but it causes a lot of lackluster moments with the episode’s monster. This means that a lot more morphed scenes were filmed for Power Rangers to accommodate all six Rangers. After all, how can you have Rangers from two different Sentai work together? This means that the footage in Power Rangers starts getting wonky the moment the Thunderzords enter the picture, but things get crazier with the introduction of the White Ranger. The other five Rangers come from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. You see, the White Ranger and the Thunderzords come from Gosei Sentai Dairanger. I typically don’t like doing this, but in this case (and I’m assuming in season three of MMPR), I think it’s important. In order to fully understand some of the things I struggle with in this season, we do have to look at the Sentai for the season. Unfortunately, “White Light” is also where the season starts hitting this weird space of some awesome parts and some awful parts. “Bloom of Doom” deals with jealousy, “Green No More” is a two-parter about Tommy losing his Green Ranger powers, and then we later get “White Light” where Tommy returns as the White Ranger. In fact, a lot of the first 20-ish episodes are very well done and possibly some of the best episodes we ever get of Power Rangers (or at least of Mighty Morphin). These three episodes are extremely well done. It also features the Rangers losing the Dinozords and gaining the Thunderzords. Season two starts with “The Mutiny” which is a 3-episode arc that features Lord Zedd arriving and replacing Rita Repulsa. So, one of the best things about this season is the very beginning. I’ll try to walk you through several of my thoughts, and we’ll see where we land. There are some things that make me really enjoy it, but then others that drive me insane. This is a particularly hard season for me to really sort out. I recently finished watching season two of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in my quest to revisit and rank all the seasons.
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